corruption like when your friendly private prison complex lobbyist greases your friendly congressman/senator to get some more prisoners/slaves to continue their dirty enterprise? or when your friendly military/industrial complex lobbyist does the same to invade some godforsaken country to test their new drone missles?
i personally prefer mexican culture of corruption to the one in dc

It is amazing the nerve of the american authorities demanding anything from a sovereign country when they have proved unable or unwilling to deal with the drug traffic occurring within the US. Nuff said!

The vicious torture and execution of an Official of the United States Government openly acting in an official capacity under the protection of diplomatic relations is a 'casus belli' if involvement can be shown of the Mexican Government. The assistance and "hugs" of law enforcement officials is evidence of such involvement.

Therefore, your concerns about Mexican sovereignty are without merit. Such recognition can and should be withdrawn when Mexico is complicit in the murder of those carrying diplomatic passports.

You should be worried, because if your vicious, vindictive, and avaricious countrymen act like that within the boarders of the United States, they may be treated like the terrorists they are inside a failed state. That would compel the US Government to overfly sovereign Mexican territory with Predator drones and directly address the issue.

For starters, I am a US citizen with a tour of duty in Iraq with the US Army. Your assumptions fall on this simple fact. But your depiction of mexican nationals as "vicious, vinidictive and avaricious" go a long way to show the despicable racist person you are. It must be though to be you; did you grow up dreaming of being an agricultural laborer and your dream was shattered by an illegal mexican?

Are you really talking about casus belli because of the fate of an US official 30 years ago? Get real! The US goverment is falling backwards to find excuses to disengage from the world and you want to engage in a war with a country of 110 million people AND some 30 million already inside the US? Do you have any idea of military affairs? Or you just watch history channel and listen to Rush? Anyways, your righteous ire, just sounds ridicule and makes you a laughing stock.

You have inadvertently somewhat changed my mind. I had been indignant at the brutal torture for a few days of Enrique Camarena until he was finally beaten to death. Mr. Camarena, like you, was a veteran. He served two years in the USMC. He was born in Mexico, but became a US citizen and a police officer. He was survived by his wife, Mika, and their three children, Enrique, Daniel and Erik.
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Upon thinking of you, instead of him, being kidnapped by corrupt Mexican Policemen and tortured to death curiously made me less resentful. Perhaps you have succeeded in making me a racist, although the charge of "racist" is subjective. For example, in my opinion, Jesse Jackson defines being a racist as anyone who may disagree with him. Not having much respect for either his or your reasoning makes me shrug off the insult. By the way, I freely admit to being pompous and thin-skinned, so don't bother trying to hurl those at me.
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If you had taken the time to review my postings here, you would have found that I am not overawed by your background. I, on the other hand, have reviewed yours. I particularly like the post where you objected to the obituary for Dr Maria Santos Gorrostieta, an assassinated Mexican mayor, and said: "And let's not forget that those three children were left orphan (sic) because of a decision made by Maria; now they have a great example of courage, but no mother. She had the duty to look after them and let the world be damned! (sic)" This is sufficient to show you as a misogynist, blaming a woman for taking a stand outside the kitchen. I suppose Mr. Camarena, in your eyes, was equally to blame for getting himself killed and leaving behind three children.
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I also would like to point out the strange point of view in your original post saying: "demanding anything . . . when they have proved unable or unwilling to deal with the drug traffic occurring within the US." This is actually a breathtaking rationalization which I avoided commenting on at first, because it could have been construed as an 'ad hominem' attack . You blame the addict for the sins of the drug pusher. Applying this to another historical context (I do love the History Channel), the Chinese, to you, are to blame for the Opium Wars.
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Logic, it seems, is not your strong suit. I do indeed believe that the individuals responsible for Mr. Camarena's death are vicious, vindictive and avaricious, however nowhere did I imply that all Mexicans were so. I also do not have the illusion, which you seem to, that all Mexican immigrants are agricultural laborers. So either you attest that no Mexican nationals are vicious, vindictive, and avaricious or you just think that the people who murdered Mr. Camarena are not. In my opinion, either conjecture is absurd.
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Finally, let me conclude by pointing out that, although Mr. Camarena did indeed die almost 30 years ago, the acts of the Mexican Government have made the issue current. Despite your chauvinistic protestations, Mexico could be declared a Failed State in the future. The Drug Lords seem to pay the police better than the Government does. In that event, the US would not declare war. We would treat Mexico as we treat Pakistan, Yemen, or Somalia. We haven't declared war on them, but we continue to cause the extrajudicial deaths of their citizens. By the way, Pakistan is bigger than Mexico and has a better army. Perhaps you should watch more of the History Channel.
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I hope Mexico does not become a Failed State, but surely you too have some doubts. Why else did you scurry across the border?

You have a very strange way to reply to posts. You decided to ignore my "rationalization" in my initial post, according to you, because you were afraid it would be, by necessity, an ad hominem attack; but somehow, such fears were allayed and lost somewhere in the latest diatribe, you wrote an answer to that. I congratulate you because this time you actually replied to the points that I made. Do not worry, age brings effects to everyone.
So you are not afraid any longer of ad hominem attacks? You should not worry about that at all. After all, I suspect that the mere fact of you opening your mouth must be offensive to someone somewhere. Your mere presence a bore, but you should be used to it by now.

Well, to get back on point. You can choose to be indignant by whatever reason you want. Even for the death of a us officer who had doubts about Mexico becoming a failed state and had no other option than to scurry to the US (as all american citizens of mexican descent surely did, right?). But you do not need to go around showing your bitterness for losing the world you grew in. Change happens old man, live with it.

Being called a "despicable racist" does open the floodgates. In your eyes I may be old, but at least I am not a fool. I did reply to your points both times, but you did not reply to mine. A fool can't reason and instead resorts to invective. I would love to know how I could be simultaneously offensive and a bore.
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I think it very unlikely that you have any idea what my World View is, just as I am mystified by yours. I don't know the reason why Mr. Camarena left Mexico, but I would assume that he sought a better life. In his case, I think he improved the United States. In your case, I think not so.

Despicable racist sounds par the course for you; so do not come feigning surprise at being called what you are.

You just keep making a fool of yourself. I was born in the US, for some strange reason you keep thinking I sneaked across the border as all people in the US with hispanic sounding names ah?

Going back to the matter of Camarena. . Caro Quintero was judged by a federal court which had no jurisdiction to do so because Camarena was operating without the blessing of the mexican government, nor was he under any diplomatic protection and therefore his kidnapping, torture and murder was a matter to be dealt by a local court. That's the rule of law at work for you. So I do not know where you get your casus belli delusions.

You do obviously labor under one delusion. You think that an attack upon you is an attack on all Mexican-Americans. I guess you have some sort of victim identity crisis. You can't continue to assume this and put words into my mouth. I also don't mean to antagonize the mentally feeble or functional illiterates when talking to you. But this has obviously gone too far, since you really don't say much.

Hopefully Holder's re-framing of the American Justice Department will give federal prosecutors a lot more time to thoroughly work over the king-pins of these drug cartels. When (NOT IF) we get our hands on the last of these monsters; it provides a rare moment for me, to praise Dick Cheney's defense of "enhanced interrogation". What's that song by Cake? It's coming down, It's coming down...

The Hispanick race of people would have died out long ago had there not been Anglos nearby to take care of them. Nobody but nobody in the history of the world has done for the the betterment and empowerment of a certain people than the USA/Anglos have done for the Hispanick race of people. Yet the USA is the ONLY country in the world that has to get extra security when their national sports teams play in Spanish speaking Latin America.

ever wondered why the US doesn't play in some countries in Africa and Asia? anyway we in Mexico are against this guy being out, but words like "Failed state" mean much much more, I would have expected more from people who read the economist, my god what is this an MSN blog? Do you guys raise pigs in Kentucky? to criticize the way you have the citizens of a whole country due to this is just like me saying that every single american is a drug addict.

This is the first time I have heard of a "Hispanic race." I guess when one is born and raised in a trailer park, Education means absolutely nothing. Besides, as a member of the "superior race" I can say that we show are class, as the number one consumers of cocaine, heroin, speed, marijuana, x, LSD, and every other drug known to man.